Peter Godman is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Latin at the University of Tubingen. He is the author of "From Poliziano to Machiavelli: Florentine Humanism in the High Renaissance" (Princeton) and "Poets and Emperors: Frankish Politics and Carolingian Poetry." He is the editor of "Alcuin: The Bishops, Kings, and Saints of York; Latin Poetry and the Classical Tradition: Essays in Medieval and Renaissance Literature; Poetry of the Carolingian Renaissance;" and "Charlemagne's Heir." His "The Saint as Censor: Robert Bellarmine between Inquisition and Index and Censorship and Heresy" will be...